Working drawings for door and windows, one dated 26 October 1799 (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
    - 1791-1801 Rebuilding of offices in the east wing and north-east extension (430)
      - Consols Transfer Office, 1797-1799 (75)

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Reference number

SM (52) 11/1/15 (53) 11/1/16

Purpose

Working drawings for door and windows, one dated 26 October 1799 (2)

Aspect

52 Elevations and details of Windows - in the Groin & Great Trunk arch, showing lunette for clerestory windows in end-bays and segmental headed casement clerestory windows in central trunk arch of side-aisle, as executed 53 Elevation of Door next to, and entering into / the proposed interior office, with pediment, cornice and consoles, and section of Entablature Full Size (and verso, Soane) sketches for column, entablature and part of pediment, and rough unidentified Plan

Scale

(52) to scale (53) bar scale

Inscribed

52 as above, The Bank. Transfer Office, a key of a B C (refering to mullions), Middle Bar a 53 as above, Transfer Office, wall line, some dimensions given and (verso) 10 ½, 4 ½, a, b

Signed and dated

(52) datable to 1799 (53) Bank 26^th Oct^r 1799

Hand

(52) Soane office (53) Soane office and (verso) Soane

Notes

Drawing 53 is for the design of the door at the west end of the hall, leading to the semicircular Interior Office inbetween the Consols Transfer Office and the Bullion Court passageway. To see a ground floor plan of the Consols Transfer Office and Interior Office, see drawing 2 in the Lothbury Court and surrounding offices scheme (SM 9/4/30).

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Drawing

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